Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

It is a strange anomaly that men could be careful to insure their houses, their ships, their merchandise, and yet neglect to insure their lives - surely the most important of all to their families, and more subject to loss.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality